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AI is a pretty broad subject, and there's lots of things that may or may not qualify.  Perhaps it'll be helpful to arrange different things that might be considered AI in a list of levels. Without further ado, here are my Levels of AI: Level 1 - Helping a human do computable tasks a bit faster We've been at this level for decades (if not longer).  I think of this as just making things we do a bit easier. Like a pocket calculator - I can't personally multiply 103 by 61 in my head, but I can work it out on paper - and there are people who can do it in their heads.  A pocket calculator can be used to do this easily, so it's artificially more intelligent than me in that specific task. This is just computation though, and I reckon a modern laptop running a spreadsheet is also Level 1.  Not really intelligent by itself, but can help us appear so. The answer is 6,283 by the way. Level 2 - Helping humans with their lives in meaningful ways Today's consume...

I love chatbots - I remember trying to write one when I was at university in 1996 or so. I think I used Modula-2. Anyway, It was pretty crap, but my friends and I had fun making it respond to all queries like it was drunk.  It responded to every query with either "I love you man, you know that?", "I just wish I could find someone to love." or "You wanna take this outside sunshine?". I'm pretty sure it would have passed the Turing test with all that. Although modern chatbots like Cleverbot are pretty damn good, but they haven't yet passed the Turing test as far as I know. In case it's not clear, a chatbot is basically bit of software that's programmed to respond intelligently to specific textual queries and statements.  Like if you say to an online chatbot "Hey chatboi, what's the weather in Moscow today?" it will say "Bloody cold.  You should wear a fur coat and one of those Russian hats with the ear flaps...